Editor’s note: This is a corrected version. In the original, information about the requirements for building facades was incorrect. Weeks after a building facade collapsed on Grace Street, the local ...

Heating and cooling buildings is a major consumer of energy, especially older ones that weren’t built with modern energy efficiencies in mind. Now, engineers at Fraunhofer Institute have developed a ...

A building's façade acts as a first impression of the contents within. Is it chic and minimalist, or bold and expressive? Each year we're seeing more products hit the market that differentiate and ...

The Life and Mind Building’s rippling concrete exterior is actually based on a researcher’s brain scan. As researchers ...

CHINATOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- A building in Chinatown was evacuated Wednesday for fear of collapse after a brick facade partially separated. The FDNY requested Department of Building inspectors to ...

Think of the wind whipping around office buildings at street level. Because wind circling a building creates a pressure differential (between the outside air and the inside air) and because that ...